Climate averages 1991–2020

Tianshui weather
in July.

A hot, wet month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 28.1°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 18.6°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 123 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Tianshui · average highYear overview

July is a hot month in Tianshui: daytime highs average 28.1°C and nights cool to about 18.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 123 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes July a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 14 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Beidao (14 km away). In July its highs average 28.1°C, about as warm as Tianshui, with 115 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Tianshui ranks joint 698th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 110th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Tianshui is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 1.1°C to 27.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 123 mm to 122 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -10-505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Tianshui climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Tianshui, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 3.4°C-5.0°C-5.0°C113.810.110 h
February 6.8°C-2.5°C-2.5°C164.310.911 h
March 12.7°C1.8°C1.8°C317.711.912 h
April 18.7°C6.8°C6.8°C508.613.013 h
May 22.6°C11.4°C11.4°C7710.813.914 h
June 26.3°C15.7°C15.7°C9310.014.414 h
July, selected 28.1°C18.6°C18.6°C12312.214.214 h
August 27.1°C18.1°C18.1°C12211.913.413 h
September 21.9°C13.9°C13.9°C11613.212.412 h
October 16.5°C8.1°C8.1°C7512.311.311 h
November 10.6°C1.9°C1.9°C266.310.410 h
December 4.9°C-3.6°C-3.6°C9.72.99.910 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

July in nearby cities

Distance from Tianshui

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Tianshui) is explained once on the Tianshui year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.